| ▲ | _august 14 hours ago |
| Are full size/larger images available somewhere? 1920x1280px seems low. Edit: Found 'em: https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=... |
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| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Try this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/ I don’t see TIFFs, so I assume the originals were JPEG. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The external shots seem to just be from the GoPro strapped to a solar panel. Didn't seen anything that looked like the shots from the Nikons onboard. Was hoping for a couple, but I know I'm just being greedy wanting all the pics edit: exif data shows some are from a Nikon. I just want to see them all!!! My greedy line still plays |
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| ▲ | niek_pas 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe you’re being impatient, but I don’t think you’re being greedy. This is a publicly funded project. I’d say those photos belong in the public domain. Which they are. | |
| ▲ | tharkun__ 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such. Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted. I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to scroll around in/zoom out on! | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | They will be posted when they get them. Right now, NASA doesn't have them because they're still on the SD cards in the capsule (probably been copied to their PCDs too). There's not a lot of bandwidth to be pushing large RAW files. They have to share the bandwidth with all of the telemetry and comms. They sent some small files down just to make some PR announcements and tease what will be coming. | | |
| ▲ | adrianpike 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There's supposed to be a 260 megabit link: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ Maybe it's not operating as described yet? | | |
| ▲ | adrian_b 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It is operating only when it can be pointed towards Earth, while also avoiding the Sun, which did not happen during the flyby. The laser is on one side of Orion, and when that side is not oriented towards Earth for various reasons, the optical communications cannot be used. For continuous communications, at least when there is no interposed body, like the Moon, multiple lasers located around Orion would be needed to ensure coverage. When by the far side of the Moon, a relay orbiting around the Moon would be needed. | |
| ▲ | em-bee 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | i heard mention of 100 megabit. they downloaded 50GB of data the night after the flyby. they probably keep downloading as much as they can. and they still need to sift through all that to find the pictures worth publishing. they could do a data dump, but that's not interesting for the general public. the stuff is coming. slowly. | |
| ▲ | consp 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Doesn't that require line of sight with limited receivers available? Maybe the current positioning is preventing it until the constellation changes. With the constellation that is the craft in respect to the two ground stations in a narrow patch of the US. I could not find anything about throughput rates except for the theoretical maximum but I also suspect that max is only in LEO. |
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| ▲ | cruffle_duffle 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Coming soon to the moon near you: starlink! |
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| ▲ | farmerbb 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It looks like changing the `~large` in the image filename to `~orig` gets you the full size versions. |
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| ▲ | aanet 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was hoping that they used a medium format camera like Hasselblad or something for the larger pics... but no such luck. I guess weight might have been one factor. Still, the pics are mind blowing. Out of this world, tbh |
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| ▲ | RogerL 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | it was light gathering. the D5 they brought is a very old camera tech wise, but it was ideal for the low light photos of the eclipse. they also brought a Z9 for much higher resolution photos. | |
| ▲ | dylan604 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | A 20.8 megapixel 5568 x 3712 pixels is not a shitty image. When we get to see those images, they will be much better than the GoPro images we're seeing | | |
| ▲ | adrian_b 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Some nice images with this resolution of the far side of the Moon have already been posted. | |
| ▲ | jiggawatts 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They also have a 46 megapixel Nikon Z9 which they don't appear to have used for some odd reason... |
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| ▲ | spartanatreyu 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And my screensaver folder grows larger... |
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| ▲ | cbhl 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| To be fair they "only" have a 20 Mbps laser uplink from the capsule to Earth, and that's shared between all the systems and uploading images/video. |
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| ▲ | modeless 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Thanks, these make some kickass ultrawide wallpapers. |
